How The Internet Is Increasingly Tracking You

“According to one Wall Street Journal study, the top 50 Internet sites, from CNN to Yahoo to MSN, install an average of 64 data-laden cookies and personal tracking beacons each. The tracking technology is designed to personalize the Internet experience for each user and, more importantly, to optimize the efficiency of advertising online. The result is an Internet that is increasingly good at giving us what we want and increasingly bad at giving us what we need.”